Signoes to sophia wood



(No Model.)

J. WOOD & M. S. DRAKE.

GAR GOUPLING.

Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

UNITE STATES PATENT EFIcE.

JOSEPH WOOD, OF BANK, AND MAHLON S. DRAKE, OF NEWARK, AS- SIGNORS TO SOPHIA WOOD, OF RED BANK, N. J., AND SAID DRA'KE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No, 350,518, dated October 12, 1886.

Application filed August 5,1885. Serial No. 173,615. (Nomodeh) To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, JosEPH Wool), of Red Bank, State of New Jersey, and llIAHLON S.

DRAKE, of Newark, New Jersey, are the joint inventors of an Improvement in Couplers for Cars, of which the followingis a description, reference being had to the drawings accompanying the same, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of our coupler, one of which is in use and one not in use. Fig. 2 is a top view of coupler and buffer, showing a face view of our coupler.

Our invention consists of a car-coupler, and is in the shape of letter T, the head or engaging part being the head of said T, as hereinafter described.

A and A are the ends of two car-coupling boxes, which are placed on the ends of cars, and are-empty boxes having sides a a and bottom I).

B is a rod or handle, which passes through the ear d of the coupling device D, and, while perfectly round at all parts, is square at the point where it enters said ear, the aperture in said ear being made square, so as to hold said rod. The rod thus fastened in said ear operates the T-shaped coupler, and by the rod the coupler D is thrown forward, upward, or downward. The coupler D has the T-head E, which is made 011 end of arm F, both preferably made of same piece with ear (I. In head E is an aperture, into which a bolt may be dropped when desired. The movement of coupler D is governed by the manipulation of rod B by means of handle H.

When two cars are brought together, both equipped with our improved coupler, one coupler only is employed, as shown in Fig. 1, and said unemployed coupler hangs down under the coupler-box.

In the head E is the aperture 1, which is placed there so that coupling may be made with a car not having our device attached, as it will be readily seen that the aperture serves the same purpose as a link now commonly used, into which aperture the pin may be dropped. It will also be seen that by the use of our coupler cars of unequal height may be attached to each other. The arm. F, at its point where ear d is located, has a free movement when operated by arm or rod D through slot G. The heads of each box are slotted at I I, as shown, so that the arm F in its length is dropped into or raised from the same. The arms 9 g of head E, when dropped into slot I, engage with the end 'of box at h h, and contact therewith prevents the head from jumping out.

\Ve show a coupler that when not in use hangs underneath the buffers, and is operated from below the buffers, and the bearings of which are entirely underneath said bufferheads,and never hung above. By this means a great advantage is gained over those now in use, as when the arm F is not used it drops down and is out of the way.

We do not claim, broadly, a T-shaped coupler,only when used in combination witha buffer, as described.

What we claim is A car-coupler consisting of T-shaped arm F and ear d, swung and arranged to operate under the buffer-head or box A by means of rod B, so that the T-shaped arm F, when not in use, hangs under said buffer-head, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

W'itncss our hands this 3d day of Aug CHAs. R. CLARKE. 

